This is ideal for use where rapport is less than you would like, or where your client is control-orientated. I tend to use it on the rare occasions when somebody comes back after my usual quit-smoking session has not been successful.

Read the last paragraph carefully and you'll begin to see why it works... if you're still not sure, then it's all to do with something called 'embedded commands', a bit of 'reverse psychology' and the positive use of negatives... A long induction and/or deeply hypnotised state is important here, after conscious motivational work. Pay attention to the stressed words, but do not overdo it.

You know, deep inside yourself, that you are your own master, that nobody could ever control you, and that therefore you can be whatever you want to be... you know that nobody controls you or your destiny, except you... because you have free choice and can make your own decisions for yourself in your own time... and because of this, you are going to decide for yourself when you want to become a non-smoker... you are going to decide for yourself when to actually become a non-smoker... and it's nobody's business but yours when you decide this should be... and I can't know when you'll make this decision... I can only wonder when it will be... whether it's today or tomorrow... whether it's some time after that... or whether it's right now, right at this very moment, but privately and in your own mind, as you just... relax... I cannot know when that decision will be made, but I do know that you will make that decision for yourself... when the time is right for you to make that decision... and I do know that when you've made that decision, then that natural tenacity of yours, that natural ability to stay with a decision you've made, is going to make it easy, almost ridiculously easy in fact, to simply STOP the smoking habit for good.

When the time is right for you, whether that time is today, right now, or tomorrow, or some time after that, you're going to find it so easy to make that decision to quite and even easier to stay with that decision... and you're going to get a whole lot of pride and pleasure out the ease with you simply decide to do it - then simply do it... a huge amount of real pride and pleasure when (inject some personal goal here, or say : "you are a genuine non-smoker.")

This is something you are going to decide for yourself, in your own time, when you want to do it... something you will pursue single-mindedly so that you are completely indifferent to other peoples' opinions of your decision to quit the habit, whatever those opinions might be... others will simply be unable to change your mind by whatever methods the seek to use... because this is something you want for yourself and you are going to find that your determination is utter and complete... and when you make that decision that you and you alone are going to make, to become a non-smoker, you're going to just know... deep inside yourself... that you are going to find it easy... that you can deal with what used to be a problem with absolute ease and control, so that something which you privately thought might be difficult is going to turn out to be easy... ridiculously easy, in fact... so easy that you actually become a source of inspiration to others.

It's not necessary for you to attempt to work out or guess when the moment is right for you to make your decision to quit the smoking habit for good... you'll just suddenly know when the time is right to do it... and you will not even try to do it before that time... because it's important that you do not... do it until you just KNOW that... the time is now... and you will know when that time is right... and that moment can be at any time and may even have already passed... and when... the time is now...

you'll be a NATURAL NON-SMOKER from that very moment onwards.